Case Against City Judge Can Proceed

ELIZABETH — A woman employed as a municipal court clerk is going to be allowed to pursue legal action because she was allegedly subjected to harassment by a judge appointed by Mayor J. Christian Bollwage.

Mary Londono was allegedly subjected to battery by Chief Municipal Court Judge Roman Montes, who is accused of tapping her buttocks with a stack of papers, shooting rubber bands at her and making inappropriate lewd remarks while she was working.

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Lawyers representing Montes were able to get Londono’s complaint summarily dismissed by a Superior Court judge based on a technicality in the Law Against Discrimination, but an appellate division panel declared that the case could proceed because the alleged inappropriate contact would constitute an act of battery if proven.